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In the Mode of Giving –

Theater, Art and Performance in the Present

This book develops concepts of giving and the exchange of gifts for contemporary art-theoretical discourse. It focuses on models drawn from the theater, visual arts and performance where processes of exchange, transfer, and reciprocity are involved. In light of the performative development of contemporary art, the contributions discuss the extent to which concepts of giving drawn from anthropological, philosophical and sociological perspectives (Mauss, Godelier, Derrida, Latour, Ricoeur, etc.) can be sustained in order to reflect and ethically accentuate the self-understanding of current artistic practice in the creative tension between claims of autonomy and social activity.

In the Mode of Giving –

on the occasion of the symposium “Concepts of gift”, 2010, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), Universität Bielefeld

edited by 
Ingrid Hentschel, Klaus Hoffmann and Una H. Moehrke

authors
Dorothée Bauerle-Willert (Art History), Christine Biehler (Art and Art Education), Mohammadreza Farzad (Theatre Studies), Lili Fischer (Performance), Dieter Hase (Cultural Research), Ingrid Hentschel (Theater Studies), Klaus Hoffmann (Theatre for Development) Klaus Lichtblau (Sociology), Thomas Henke/Christian Christmas (Video and Installations), Marcel Martin (Theology), Una H. Moehrke (Visual Arts), Tino Sehgal (Art), Hanne Seitz (Aesthetic Education), Gerhard Stamer (Philosophy), Ian Watson (Performance Studies), Kristin Westphal (Education), Smadar Yaaron (Theater) and Wolfgang Zinggl (Performance Art)

Graphic design
Jenny Baese

ISBN: 978-3-86678-494-9
Format: 16,80 × 24,00 cm
Pages: 208
Illustrations: 36 colored and 11 b/w illustrations
Cover: Softcover with flaps, bound
Languages:

German | English

 
 

25,90 € ( 36,90 CHF ) (postage free inside germany)

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